Forest Johnson
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Code42
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolForest Johnson is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Minneapolis with 13 years of experience building and operating resilient cloud-native systems. He combines hands-on platform engineering at Code42 with a history of DevOps and infrastructure work—designing IaC, automated deployments, containerized services, and monitoring for large-scale telematics platforms that achieved high availability. An autodidact and mentor, Forest is known as the friendly neighborhood expert who helps teams adopt best practices and stabilize complex distributed systems. He runs SequentialRead.com and an LLC where he experiments with open-source tools, web apps, and an early cloud/desktop product called Greenhouse, showing a taste for practical side projects that inform his professional work. Comfortable across Python, Go, Node/TypeScript, and AWS, he brings both deep operational rigor and a developer’s curiosity to reliability and platform problems. A former Google Summer of Code participant and long-time home-hosted publisher, he blends academic curiosity with production-proven engineering.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Beloit College
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Github Skills (3)
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Github contributions (3)
ForestJ/beta
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:22 commits in 25 days
algobardo/Catroid
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:61 commits in 1 month
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